Transcending Mindfulness #7: Trauma & Healing

In this podcast:

• What is trauma?
• The link between trauma and psychological dissociation as a defence mechanism.
• Symptoms of trauma & alienation and its causes in personal and collective psychology.
• Encountering trauma in meditation practice.
• The history of studying trauma in psychology.
• The connections between dissociation and a strong feeling of ‘I’ or self.
• Deep trauma as somatic or ‘in the body’.
• Trauma, healing and working through the energetic body.
• Discussing the metaphysics of mind & body.
• A separation of mind and body: a minority view in human history. Returning the human to the spiritual sphere.